apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

I wrote a column about Andrew Cuomo: www.elizabethspiers.com/andrew-cuomo...

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

The problem is not their ideology. Ideological compromise is necessary. The problem is that the current generation of leadership never wanted fighting Trump and cleaning up after him to be their main job. They have no stomach for the style of politics that is now necessary.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

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I asked Sen. @vanhollen.senate.gov whether Dems should fund government in exchange for short-term ACA subsidy extension: "I'm not going to vote to fund Donald Trump's ongoing lawbreaking, right? Because right now, any agreement is not worth the paper it's written on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWYQ...

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NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Liberals say the Supreme Court had destroyed our democracy. They're wrong—it has destroyed our Republic.

ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it

I think the best interpretation of statements like these (both Third Way's and Nichols') is as "Trojan horse propaganda": statements that function as propaganda not because of what they say directly, but the meaning they smuggle in (as most of the replies and QTs are picking up on!)

Now is as good a time as ever to re-evaluate the need for an Amazon Prime membership.

Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!

🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car. They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor. Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is. (🎥 ABC 7 News)

This answer that Mamdani provided in a 2020 interview shows that he has always been extremely open about the complexities of his diasporic identity and remains the perfect rebuttal to the attempted scandal the NYT is trying to create today. africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...

To me "groups" are basically any collection of activists who pretend like they lead a mass movement when they don't and, well...

I think my main problem with the online right wing fretting over Zohran is they all hate NYC the rest of the time anyways? This would be like me crying HARK, THE BEAUTIFUL DALLAS COWBOYS ARE IN PERIL when they made some terrible move

Meanwhile, on the Big Beautiful Bill, @ryanlcooper.com points out that the one big area where energy tax credits are actually expanded is in ethanol and biofuels, which is demonstrably worse for climate change and a horrible use of land: prospect.org/politics/202...

That Clyburn thinks Andrew Cuomo is part of the future of the Democratic Party - and points to his character!!! — is the problem with the current Democratic Party leadership in a nutshell. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...

Think about what it says to talk about a 67 year old, even leaving aside how awful he is, as “the future” of anything. Solipsistic octogenarian cowards anointing a Medicare-eligible ex-governor who resigned in disgrace the future captain of the sinking ship. What a party.

the Democratic Party is just completely broken right now

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

the senate report is here: www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Spare me the fake outrage. None of these people showing up for court are criminals of any kind. As a prosecutor, I worked with many ICE officers who arrested violent criminals. None of them wore masks. Many of your agents are clearly ashamed to carry out your orders.

I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.

What I'm hearing is that his attendance at this dinner where people hand him bribes is not an official presidential action, as designated for absolute criminal immunity in Trump v. United States

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If you wanted a sense of how backwards things are in Washington – today Republicans in the House defeated their own budget bill. Their reason was not that it would gut Medicaid for millions, or decimate food assistance. Their reason was that the cuts weren't deep enough.

I wrote about how the pandemic forced everyone to be much more online than they used to be, and about how that’s still messing with our glorified ape brains today: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/a-world-in-t...

"Some of these people legitimately went mad with power, acting as if they were the god-kings of what was then an obscure and experimental social media website with less than 100,000 total users." little-flying-robots.ghost.io/a-world-in-t...

The thing about political strategies such as a) persuasion, b) making good policy, and c) Downsian responsiveness to the median voter is this: It makes sense to use very different strategies in the short versus in the longer term. /1

just a really long sustained and, as it goes on, increasingly obviously sarcastic round of applause to every Democratic op who is still pushing the utterly failed "culture war stuff is just a distraction" narrative and using "woke" as a pejorative. Republicans are gross weirdos just keep saying it.

Want a Democratic party that very publicly says, "Trump won't be around forever, we are keeping track of the countries that do such things, and there will be consequences."

Unlike in his 1st term, American businesses, billionaires, and foreign governments now assume that because Trump won twice they can engage in blatant corruption and not face the wrath of American law under future governments. I think they are underestimating the American people and our Constitution.

A swath of media acts like the biggest victims of COVID were people who speculated that it leaked from a lab and received replies on social media like “no evidence, conspiracy theorist, stop it” instead of “I doubt it, the epidemiological evidence indicates otherwise, but can’t totally rule it out.”

You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.

Either the Dems will need to destroy crypto or else crypto will destroy the Democratic Party (along with the American Republic) bsky.app/profile/brai...

You know how Trump blew up Obama's excellent Iran deal, and all the predictable consequences ensued, and now Trump is desperately trying to recreate basically that same deal? Feel like that deserves at least as much media outrage as Biden pulling troops out of Afghanistan.